Joel Meyerowitz (born in New York, 1938) is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of both the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities awards, and a recipient of the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, and has published over thirty books, including the Aperture titles Legacy (2009), Cape Light (2015), and Seeing Things (2016).
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Photo: Vincent de Groot
The Portraits: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses what he looks for when it comes to lighting and setting for a street portrait. He shares how paying attention to elements beyond the person that you are photographing plays an important role in a successful portrait.
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Photo: Joseph-Philippe Bevillard
Street Portraits: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex talk about the art of the street portrait. He explains why it’s just as important to consider not only the subject, but all the other elements in the frame to succeed in making a great photograph.
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photo: Ibarionex
Street Portrait: Finding the Shot
In this video, Ibarionex discusses how he made a portrait during a recent trip to the Dominican Republic. He explains what initially drew his attention to the scene and how he slowly built the composition and included the subject in the frame to pull off a beautiful and interesting portrait.
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photo: Shawn Theodore
The Candid Frame #293 - Shawn Theodore aka @_xST
A great street portrait is more than just a photograph of a stranger. In many ways that person being photographed and the photographer enter a collaboration. The subject is choosing to open themselves to being revealed and interpreted by the photographer. And the photographer, if he’s adept enough, is communicating what they find fascinating and beautiful about that subject. And in the hands of a really good photographer, they reveal something about the community and the culture they exist in.
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photo: Jamel Shabazz
The Candid Frame #257 - Jamel Shabazz
Jamel Shabazz has been documenting the ‘Urban Life’ for over 30 years. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY he picked up his first camera at the age of 15 and proceeded to record the world around him. Jamel has drawn inspiration from the great James Van Der Zee, Gordon Parks, Robert Capa, Chester Higgins and Eli Reed.
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